Parenting Quotes

Where you raise your children isn`t as important as how you raise your children. I think it`s what you talk to them about, what you expose them to, what you make them mindful of. And you`ve got to do that anywhere you live. LA can be a very open and accepting creative environment. But it is important, because there is this odd separation here, it is important to make your kids mindful of other people and other people`s plight. I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it`s really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people.

On devoting more time to parenting her sons than film work: "There`s something so pure about the ways boys love you."

I saw this anti-drug commercial that showed a kid smoking pot in his dad`s room with his friend. This kid finds a gun, the gun accidentally goes off and kills his friend. Only in America is the villain in this commercial not guns or bad parenting, but pot.

"When I was a child and I was upset about something, my mother was not capable of containing that emotion, of letting me be upset but reassuring me, of just being with me in a calming way. She always got in a flap, so I not only had my own baby panics, fears and terrors to deal with, but I had to cope with hers, too. Eventually I taught myself to remain calm when I was panicked, in order not to upset her. In a way, she had managed to put me in charge of her. At 18 months old, I was doing the parenting."

Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.

I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it`s really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people.

(speaking in Washington, DC, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling that eradicated segregated schooling in America) These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and now we`ve got these knuckleheads walking around. The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal. These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids--$500 sneakers for what? I can`t even talk the way these people talk, "Why you ain`t," "Where you is?" You can`t be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth!

Guys need a little help in knowing how to care for a kid. It`s not that I think: Gee, parenting is beneath me. It`s just that I wouldn`t think of it.

There has been some research, by the way, that shows that, as people are coming up into their parenting ages, they gravitate back to the evening news.

Most fathers do want to maintain their responsibilities, both financially and as parents. But their path is blocked by contact orders not worth the paper they are written on. If shared parenting were the norm, not the exception, much of the non-compliance problem would cease to exist.

The print material that are being distributed at parties and social events have been extensively tested for the appeal of the adolescent market, including the Jamaican cartoons and parenting crossword puzzles and word games,

If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.

What lingers from the parent`s individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason.

More and more men are doing more child rearing during the marriage. As a result, more men are seeking significant parenting roles after divorce, sometimes asking to be primary residential parents.